skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch

Are we talking about the same multitouch?

I do agree with you about "I am yet to see a more useful reason for multitouch to exist than text input." to an extent.

Three examples that are much easier on multi-touch:

1. Google Maps (pinch, zoom, pan)

2. Images (pan, zoom, slide-next)

3. Scrolling large lists
Only a programmer could have written this article. Fine, use two spaces, we only see one anyway. Sheesh.
This looks great (and is something I'll very likely use on a project I'm working on now!)

My quick "dumb" question -- what's the pitch for using this vs. what I would call more traditional conversion tools? My project will need some HTML -> PDF goodness and I was planning on researching and running some sort of local / server-side package (which I presume exists, though I haven't researched them yet).

Either way, congrats on the launch - this makes a lot of sense and sounds like a great utility.
You could link the ripcord to release a toxin to cause unconsciousness.
I think he/she may be referring to this sentence in the original article (on netmagazine.com): "In today's Western society, being male, white and straight gives you three huge privileges over everyone else"
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You say "In short: inflation doesn't affect your returns". And thats what I said. But the linked article says the opposite: "High inlfation led to negative returns".
Interesting, but their choice of weighting of sugar and pH is not based on any evidence.

Also, would the amount of time that the drink is in contact with your teeth not have an impact? Perhaps wine would have more of an impact because you might keep it in your mouth longer, offset by the small likelihood you you drinking as much of it?
Slate is typical. Arrogance is pretty much a given in any grammatical/typographical discussion. In the land of the pedants, the man who says "you and I" is king.

The vim ambiguity is part of the greater English punctuation suckage. If I end a sentence in Jr. or St., am I supposed to double up on the periods on the end, or will that just make me look stupid? I already had a period followed by a comma there, which looks pretty bad, and "My personal hero is Martin Luther King Jr.." just seems wrong.

Also, I think I'm supposed to write a comma after a quotation, but I would have done that I would have written '..",'. That's pretty bad, and only compounded by the period at the end. I'm not sure that it's in the right place, either - should it be inside the quotation marks according to the normal rule or can I put it outside the quotation marks to avoid ambiguity? Why is it so difficult just to write a sentence without it going horribly awry?
ps I just realized you are not the person that posted this topic (who is building Kera).

What you do at Big Bang Technology looks great too though!
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> Posted less than a minute ago on October 12, 2012.

What is this broken cache-incompatible time-tracking system he is using?
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The problem with all these kick-starter/bootstrap/phone-gap etc is they produce mediocre common denominator apps/sites. Sorry but creating a successful business involves work, there is no magical framework to make this easy, in fact all these things do it constrain you.
Is there any chance the writing will be any good, compared to the long-standing, excellent journalism that already exists? I'll keep getting my quality journalism from New Yorker, The Nation, The Guardian, etc.
Because adultery is unheard of? I am not denying that when you are married or in a known committed relationship the tendency is to interpret things in a purely "two co-workers going to lunch" kind of way, but to assume marriage guarantees that end goal, at least in America, is probably a bit hasty.
Interesting piece, but the coffeescript is a barrier for me as I haven't learned it yet. :(
Its interesting that the tech industry has so high number of people that learned the basic work skills at a very low age.

Very few other professions has this. A plumber did not go around fixing pipes at age 10. A medic, while they might have played doctor, do not really learn any of the basic skills until hitting university education. The lawyer when he was 10 is unlikely to be reading law documents.

Beyond maybe the mechanic profession, what other professions beyond IT has this property?
I assume it's there to match up with the simulation getting faster and faster.
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Well, his floaty text on the left of the column is a fixed distance from the left margin, so it overlaps the column unless i make the window fullscreen.
Thanks! The pitch is that HTML to PDF conversion tools, as a rule, are not very good. Docverter is actually on it's third iteration of that particular conversion because the first two didn't provide even close to satisfactory results.
I didn't get the impression they looked at serving size. In other words, the Merlot's average serving size is smaller than that of the Guiness, even though the latter is "better".
You know about Nimbus CSS, right? http://docs.nimbuskit.info/group___nimbus_c_s_s.html
My arguement against 2 spaces and for 1 space is that 2 spaces is semantically wrong and 1 is semantically correct. We use a space to separate 2 words and a full stop (etc.) is used to indicate the end of a sentence. We don't need full stop and 2 spaces.

Now, traditionally, to increase readability, typographers used 1 and a half spaces after the end of a sentence. It looks pretty good and so someone decided that would be 2 on a monospace typewriter. However, our PCs are slightly (ish - not by much) more powerful than said typewriters and can work out when to use 1 and a half spaces if necessary.
I use Windows, so I don't know how to use an application if it's not fullscreen.
If the dentist is being scientific, it's up to him to back up his claims about sugar and acid being the most (or only) important indicators for what's bad for teeth.

EDIT: For example, there's been some interesting work discussed here: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.ca/2009/03/reversing-tooth...
Similarly, how does this stack up against good 'ol vim? I always get excited when I see a new editor project, but it ends up being nigh impossible to give up the comfort of my vimrc...
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The FSF also requires signing paperwork and assigning copyright for GNU code contributions.

Why? So they don't have to worry (as much) about copyright infringement and patent bombs. VMWare could also sell or commercialize it (and the FSF has legal standing to sue for violations).
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Please excuse the hijack, anything in the pipeline for release in 2013?
if you know javascript, coffeescript will take about 2hrs to learn, it's really very similar.
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Hey there,

Sounds cool - I'll check it out. I'm not a conference organizer so I don't know if I'm your target customer. We actually spun Kera out of Big Bang Technology. I guess it's time to update my HN profile!

Max
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Same, except I don't plan to learn coffeescript, anyway. As a full-stack developer, I can't see the benefit of learning yet another 'language' if I can just write JavaScript. I have enough syntax rules to remember as it is.
Drawing controls in code, unless you gain something other than the space saved for bitmaps, is a waste of time and energy. You gain nothing by drawing the gradients for buttons in code.

If it all ends up in that format anyway, you might as well do what Apple does 95% of the time: just use bitmaps. In mobile, saving cycles is more important than saving storage.
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I was just suggesting that the dentist might be familiar with the best science we have directly or indirectly, not even that he was acting scientifically per se.
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I remember when one of our Apple ][ user group members brought an Osborne 1 to a meeting. We just about had fistfights to get a close view of the thing.
With a million and one blogs out there, you only get prestige and that great "this is a good blog" status if you have a high signal-to-noise ratio.

Or you're blogging about the next Hollywood celeb breakup...but I think you see my point.
Lots of bizarre logic here:

> Not only is it not a large portion of your keystrokes, but the space bar has your two strongest digits dedicated solely to it!

double-tapping a key is harder to execute than other key pairings.

> Well that’s not right! Vim can’t easily tell the difference between the period after “Mr” and the end of a sentence.
> Two-spacing provides more semantic information,

If this is your concern, it's far more appropriate to use a different symbol/glyph for non-breaking dots.

> So the next time you see that arrogant Slate article, feel free to be arrogant right back.

True. That Slate author's writings are unjustifiably smug.
Not only that. Because the air density is different at different heights, there's actually an optimal speed for every possible height.

The optimal height of an aircraft, however, depends on the mass of itself and the payload.
The rockstar shit is a filter for me. If a company advertises itself as wanting rockstars, ninjas, "hardcore" people, or whatever brogrammer bullshit of the week is, I put that job advert to the bottom of my list. The thought of working around the sort of people who would apply because they consider themselves a hardcore ninja rockstar puts me off. (I spent more than enough time with homophobic macho fuckwits when I was at school, I'd rather not have to deal with them at work.)

There are gendered problems in tech: social bugs, really.

There's the putting-yourself-forward problem. I was at an event a while back and ran a birds-of-a-feather session on open source geo stuff (I'm an OpenStreetMap editor). At the session was a woman who is involved with a startup in the same area, but she didn't seem to have the confidence to run the session, even though her involvement in open source geo is much higher than mine (I just piss around editing maps). Ensuring that our community institutions invite women in is a good step: they don't have to accept the invitation, but many will. And that's good.

Another problem some women I know face: social expectations. They have to dress more masculine in order to be taken seriously at real-life gatherings. We as hackers like to say we don't judge people based on their appearances but based on their code. Then at the same time, we like to judge the "suits". I know women who have said they have to go home and change out of feminine wear (of all levels of formality) into jeans and a t-shirt in order for the hacker crowd to take them seriously. If a guy turns up to an event in a suit, people will just naturally assume he needs to wear it because he's doing coding in some kind of corporate environment. But if women turn up in a dress, they just get the presumption that they are in sales or PR or something. That's bullshit. (This stems from the geeky hackery idea that dressing nice makes someone untrustworthy. Sorry, no, I've worked with utter assholes who come to work in jeans every day, and I've worked with people who are awesome, ethical and never fuck people over who–gasp!–wear formal or dressy clothing.)

Is there an endemic problem of malicious deliberate sexism? No. That exists in some companies, sure, but I don't think that's the primary problem. Instead, there's lots of little nagging bugs, some of which stem from unconscious attitudes perpetuated by geek culture. The sexism problems such as they are consist of lots of little nagging bugs that taken together exclude women. Unless you are some kind of hardcore misogynist, fixing them will have generally positive side effects for everybody.
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Think a little about what you're saying here.

For example, the dictionary definition of atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods. However, many religious people believe that atheism is a conscious rejection of an existing God, a deliberate embracing of evil, and that all atheists are intrinsically amoral or indeed immoral. This understanding is so common that most people who do not believe in a god refuse to self-identify as atheists, and those who do are reviled somewhat less than child molesters.

My point here should be obvious: You're right. If you don't believe in God, you are an atheist. If you think your social rights should be independent of your genitals or gender identity, you are a feminist. But if you don't use the word to describe yourself (and that's forgivable), it's not because it has "baggage"-- it's because hateful organizations and individuals have been attacking the word as a proxy for attacking the concept, and it is working.

We don't have to let them off the hook for this.
Skydivers been using automatic safety openers for a very long time (the 80's at least). We basically install them on our reserve chute so if we pass below opening altitude at a fast rate of descent it automatically trigger the emergency chute.
It's saved many, many lives that I can personally recall.
It might be legal, but it isn't right.
I had one of these as a second hand gift from a friend of my dad's who probably wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole (more like a 3rd generation one) and it was my primary machine circa 1989-1994. I remember feeling very uncomfortable the few times I brought it to class in college. Built like a brick-shithouse. The keyboard was magnificent. I think the killer apps around then for me were AutoMenu, WordPerfect, Turbo Pascal, and the built-in modem. Wish I would have saved this with the rest of my retro-stash but it wound up just getting lost during a move.
That looks neat, but the "10 seconds" thing is a bit weird. It would take me at least 2-3 minutes to evaluate those options and download the file. Also, it's not like "10 seconds" is an improvement on the status quo, which is like 5 seconds (or 2 seconds, if you have AIDE).
To be clear, we're talking about an automated process that is looking for forms to fill out. It's far easier and faster to simply scrape the HTML of a page and look for the <form> and <input> tags to figure out what to submit than to actually fire up something that resembles a real browser.
Really? It shouldn't, and doesn't for me on Firefox and Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/yGQSK.png

What browser are you using?

(Note: it will overlap if you resize the window horizontally, but should fix itself as soon as you scroll a pixel in any direction)
Wolfram thinks he do.
> a full stop (etc.) is used to indicate the end of a sentence.

If I may, I call your attention to the first of the two sentences endings in the quoted snippet.
I would lever call a woman I interact with in a professional context a girl. That's so Mad Men. Am I the only one who considers this headline inappropriate for a posting about gender issues at work?
One hears that Bulimia and certain drug addictions (Crack, Meth) are very bad for your teeth. Bulimia because of the strong acid, and drugs because they interfere with the mouth's self-cleaning instinct.

I'd guess the best teeth live in a mouth with:
1. Active high-volume saliva glands
2. A population of healthy bacteria

How do you encourage that?
I'm impressed someone has had the balls to launch a service without a free-tier. Note that there is a developer's access plan for free though, so no moaning!
> Is it just "hobbyists" or do some academics derive useful work out from pursuing them?

The excessive search for "useful work" is one of the bigger problem of academia today. Even the most practical research usually doesn't look useful at the beginning, and pursuing things that seem immediately applicable to real-world problems can be a form of premature optimization. Not to say we shouldn't pursue the "practicality" route at all, but today most research seems to be optimized for short-term money generation and/or fame.

Anyway, cellular automata are a separate research field, and I'm pretty sure that some of those game-of-life engineers are academics who are doing this as research because it's fun/interesting. And hail to them, because those hobbyst-scientists create tools that enterpreneurs can forge progress with.
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I just went through this from the agency side, and I totally agree with the author. I think just the list of people that were brought on the project prove the point.

All these people were involved: Account director, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Marketing Specialists (3 of them for some reason), Copy writer, Content Strategist, User Experience, Art Director, Technical Manager, Front end developer, Back End developer

The agency burned through enough money to hire 4-5 employees for a year. We had a few meetings with the client and 8 people from the agency. The math there is pretty painful for the client. 8 people for an hour (at $165+ each per hour) means that each meeting costs well over $1k.

Hire a freelancer (like meeeeeee) or get full time employees. Agencies best serve large companies that can't (or don't want to) maintain design and development teams in house.
I wonder how much serving size would even matter? I'm told the damage comes after the drink really, when your teeth sit around covered in it.

I'm sure it'd make some difference, it takes longer to drink a pint than a shot there'll be a bigger concentration there during those initial minutes, but I doubt it'd be linearly proportional.

I'd guessed a red-wine. My dentist certainly goes on about my drinking booze more than me downing Ribena by the pint. I wonder if alcohol can have some unmeasured effect apart from sugar content and PH.
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Earnest question: How is this different than what Eclipse makes for you in 10 seconds?
"However some other roles in IT might be better for women to start, like BA and QA and project management where frankly they excel."

Yeah, that's not itself sexist or condescending or anything...
In my opinion, android development is easy enough to get started without this kind of tool. There are concepts like activities , providers ,etc ... you need to grasp that cannot be abstracted. It's like wanting to develop for a solid app for iOs without learning obj-C,while it is possible, one would throw aways everything the iOs framework gives ones for free.
Similarly, I read something recently (no link, sorry) that stated something like the following (poorly paraphrased):

Juice is fine to drink as it's generally healthy,
but if you're going to drink it, do so quickly
instead of sipping on it for long periods.

The premise being exactly what you surmised, that chugging a small glass of OJ is much better for your teeth than sipping it and putting your teeth into contact with it for so much longer.
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How about writers?

If that's too cheap a shot, I believe most professional musicians began learning their instrument as children, though I struggle to find a source for that belief.
Is there any benefit to this over simply running Pandoc?
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The Trash-80 wasn't a laptop! They were popular though, I had one. My first memories of laptops were from Compaq, and they were not flat but more brick like, with fold down keyboards and big slots for the floppy drives. I carried one of these around for a few years (consulting), eventually it was replaced with a toshiba T1000 and its offspring.
How about encourage them not to become crack heads or bulimics in the first place? It's a strategy that probably has benefits beyond mere dental health.
I think GoL unit cells http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Unit_cell like this demonstrate an important point. That there's certain limitations to our knowledge of reality.

Imagine an intelligent being in a GoL board, made of a huge pattern of cells (just like we're made of a huge number of atoms).

Even though when we look at a GoL board, we know it's made up of cells and that everything operates according to a fixed number of rules, this intelligent being wouldn't just be able to know this. It's perceptual system would be made of these elements (perhaps it somehow uses spaceships to find out about what is out there). Remember that you can't just "see" reality - you need inputs and to infer what's out there on the basis of them. The sort of view of its reality it could infer would be much more coarsely grained than at the level of individual cells, just as our unaided view of reality is much more coarsely grained than the level of individual atoms.

That intelligent GoL being could observe the way things behave and, on the basis of this, theorise the GoL rules - that everything was a bunch of cells, and that if there's an empty cell and it has three neighbours then that cell will be 'on' in the next moment, and so forth.

And if it existed in a 'standard' Game of Life board, it would have theorised correctly. But if it lived in a Game of Life board where each of the cells it has posited is actually one of these unit cells like in the linked page, then there would be a deeper reality than it realises (and of course there could be 'deeper levels' within that).

There's no way that GoL being could tell.
What does this add to pandoc? In other words, why would I pay for this service? It obviously runs in the cloud, but I haven't found much else.

In fact, my observation is that the API documentation was merely copy-pasted from the original. Example:

Pandoc docs[1]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/144454/hn/from.png

Docverter API[2]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/144454/hn/to.png

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#header-identifi...

[2] http://www.docverter.com/api.html#toc_425

However the author went the extra mile to rename sections thus making it sound like the Markdown extensions are in fact Docverter's.

Sorry to be so negative, but this almost seems like acting in bad faith and selling a GPL-licensed software as service under a new name.
Their function 10^(5.5-pH) * (mg/cl sugar + 1) does seem to imply that sugar and acidity have a synergistic effect, where the +1 in the sugar term is a hack to keep the result from being 0 if the sugar is 0. This doesn't make sense, as a modest increase in sugar, say from 0 to 1 would double the result regardless of the pH.